Ch11- Alder and Giovanni

Viridian City Gym (On the day of Gunn's Gym battle)

"Welcome Alder, I was waiting for you. Take a seat."

The voice was gentle but had a bit of sinister aura. This was the voice of a middle-aged man who was wearing a black formal suit with a white long sleeve button shirt and a red tie at the collar. He has short, brown hair and was wearing black shoes. He also had a sinister look on his face. 

"Thank you, Mr Giovanni"

Alder was a pokemon trader in Sinnoh and has connections in every region. He was a tall man in his forties. He had white hair and a French beard. Today, the purpose of his visit was to trade with the most powerful gym leader in Kanto.

"I suppose you bought everything I have asked for?"

"Yes, of course Mr Giovanni, but may I ask you a question regarding my trade today? Just to fulfil my curiosity."

"Go ahead."

"I know that you specialize in ground types but your trading deal was for the supply of nearly a hundred dark types. Why is that you asked me to keep this trade as a secret from the League?"

"You see Mr Alder, Kanto doesn't have a single dark type and most of the rare ones found are not native to this region. I was also a bit curious about them and was planning to breed them so that Kanto can have a balance in ecology. As for the second question.....hmmm, The league is mixture of officials from Kanto and Jhoto, but all officials from Jhoto were against my idea of introducing dark types here. Whatever I do is for the well being of Kanto. Anyways you don't need to worry about my business, just deliver the goods and take the money that's given."

"Ahhh.., ye...yes of course Mr Giovanni." Feeling the threatening aura in that voice, Alder started stuttering.

"One more thing Mr Alder, I heard you got a mysterious egg from Jhoto and is there any way you can sell it?"

"It's not that mysterious Mr Giovanni, they are native to Sinnoh but are as rare as Clefairy from Kanto, you see my granddaughter is starting her journey next year and I wanted to gift it as a starter."

"Oh I am really interested now but as you are not willing to sell it then that's really a regret."

"I will take my leave now as I can't waste your precious time." Alder left the gym hastily, he was getting a bad feeling about this. As this was a secret trade, he did not inform his journey to Kanto to anyone. He came directly from Jhoto after hearing what Giovanni wanted, he never suspected anything caz gym leaders are good in character.

He took his Flygon out and left immediately.

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Inside the gym

"Sir, Is it ok if we leave him like that?"

asked a guy with a purple mohawk hair. Unlike the other Team Rocket grunts, he looked menacingly cruel.

"Who said we are leaving him Petrel? if he leaks anything about our transfer to the league then all our plans will fail, not to say that old man Oak stays right beside our city. If not for him and that old lady Agatha, we would have gone public long before."

"Sir, then should I give a chase and kill him?"

"Take the other two executives with you, don't leave any evidence behind, and if possible get that egg back to the headquarters. Anything rare will be mine, hahaha hahahahaaaaa" he laughed maniacally.

"Yes sir"

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Route 3 (4 days after the gym battle)

I was cooking food for Riolu and Scyther. After the gym battle, we started battling a lot of trainers around here and we're taking some rest before we train for some new moves. Scyther mastered Endure and I am going teach him a new move.

"Scyther and Riolu, after we finish our lunch we will train with a new move."

"First Scyther, you are a bug type and you still do not know any bug moves, so we will work on something simple, just like how you gather steel energy into your wings, you need to gather bug energy into the Scythes and then slash them forward. It's called fury cutter and it gets powerful as you keep using it. Practice this after you finish your lunch."

"Scyther Scy"

"Riolu, we will work on a move which is an upgrade of Rock smash, it has the ability to break barriers and is two times more powerful than Rock smash."

"Rioluuuuu" she was very excited.

" For mastering Brick break, there are three things you need to be good at, one you need to gather more powerful fighting type energy. The other is to toughen up your fingers and hands, so a lot of pushup training from now. The final condition is that you need to be very agile and swift with your hand movement. So practice a lot after eating."

"Riolu Lu"

The only time we have fun is while eating, Scyther started to have his meals sitting more closer to us but he was still a loner. Occasionally, Riolu plays pranks on him. Most of the times, he ignores them but sometimes he gets really mad and they start fighting. I was always there to stop it, if it goes beyond reason.

When we are having our lunch today, I heard a voice inside my head

[It's too delicious, finally I can fill my stomach]

I suddenly turned towards Riolu but she was giving me a quizzical look as if to ask if something was wrong. I tell them what happened and they look around but to see none.

[ No need to panic Sir, I was really hungry and couldn't stop myself from stealing. Although it's too shameless to do that, I had no other choice. Sorry]

"Instead of freaking us out, you can at least show yourself to us."

[ If you promise me that you wouldn't panic when I appear then I can show myself, you see I look a bit different and everyone calls me a freak.]

"I think I will panic more if you keep talking telepathically"

Then suddenly a pokemon appeared in front of us. The moment I put my eyes on her, I knew what she was. My eyes were literally shining. I never got this excited since I saw Riolu hatch.

"You know, you are really bold. Never saw a pokemon contact telepathically with strangers and not to say you appeared in front of me the moment I asked you to. Aren't you too bold and naive for your own good?"

[Sir, you have no ability to catch me. I can teleport away the moment I sense something ominous]

"Quite confident aren't you? Then let's battle. If I win, you join my team and if I lose I will cook something delicious for you. Is the offer good enough? "

At the mention of food, she hurriedly accepted the offer. I am glad that I got different kinds of recipes from Brock. Even if I lose, I can still recruit her with food. (hehehehe)

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x------Cliffhanger--------x

Any guess on what the Pokemon is?

Let me tell you it's not from Alder's mysterious egg.

Fun Fact:

Although Flygon is Dragon/Ground type, it's still considered as a bug under egg groups. You can only breed Flygon with bugs.